Laljit Singh Bhullar is an Indian politician and the Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly representing Patti. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.[1][2]
Laljit Singh Bhullar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Cabinet Minister for Transport, Punjab | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2022 | |
| Governor | Banwarilal Purohit |
| Chief Minister | Bhagwant Mann |
| Cabinet Minister for Hospitality, Punjab | |
| Assumed office 19 March 2022 | |
| Governor | Banwarilal Purohit |
| Chief Minister | Bhagwant Mann |
| Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 10 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Harminder Singh Gill |
| Constituency | Patti |
Career
editBhullar worked as volunteer in Aam Aadmi party. He defeated four-time SAD MLA Adesh Partap Singh Kairon and one-time Congress MLA Harminder Singh Gill in the 2022 election.[3] The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[4]
Member of Legislative Assembly
editBhullar was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Patti, Punjab Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.[5][6] Eight ministers including Bhullar who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs.[7]
As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry, Bhullar was given the charge of two departments of the Punjab Government:[8]
- Department of Transport
- Department of Hospitality
Transport minister
editIn June 2022, CM Bhagwant Mann announced Volvo bus service between IGI Airport and different Punjab cities of the state. The tariff charged by the PRTC and PEPSU buses for the Airport were announced at half the rates being charged by the private bus operators. Mann said that this service would break the monopoly of a few families in bus business with political links.[9][10]
Electoral performance
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Laljit Singh Bhullar[1] | 57,323 | 39.55 | ||
| SAD | Adaish Partap Singh Kairon | 46,324 | 31.96 | ||
| INC | Harminder Singh Gill[11] | 33,009 | 22.78 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,079 | |||
| Majority | 10,999 | 7.59 | |||
| Turnout | 1,44,922 | ||||
| Registered electors | [12] | ||||
| AAP gain from INC | |||||
References
edit- ^ a b "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". The Indian Express. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "Punjab election 2022, Punjab election results 2022, Punjab election winners list, Punjab election 2022 full list of winners, Punjab election winning candidates, Punjab election 2022 winners, Punjab election 2022 winning candidates constituency wise". Financialexpress. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ "Restoring bus service top priority: Laljit Singh Bhullar". Tribuneindia News Service. 3 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "Ten Punjab ministers to take oath on Saturday". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 March 2022. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "25,000 Government Jobs For Punjab: New Chief Minister's 1st Decision". NDTV.com. Press Trust of India. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "In Mann's first list of Cabinet ministers, 8 greenhorn MLAs". The Indian Express. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ "Punjab portfolios announced; CM Mann keeps Home and Vigilance, Cheema gets Finance, Singla Health, Harbhajan Power". Tribuneindia News Service. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ "Punjab govt bus service to Delhi International Airport soon". The Statesman. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ Service, Tribune News. "Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann aims to break monopoly of private bus operators; announces to ply buses to Delhi airport from June 15". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.